TCPALM: Water management district needs to stop smearing critics

posted by Everglades Trust | 0sc
September 13, 2016

TCPALM: September 9, 2016. Written by Editorial Board.

The South Florida Water Management District bears an awesome responsibility. The agency guards against flooding and protects water supplies in a 16-county region stretching from Orlando to Key West. It helms Florida's Everglades restoration efforts. And it manages some 2,100 miles of canals and 2,000 miles of levees or berms, more than 1,200 water control structures and culverts, dozens of pump stations and thousands of hydrological monitoring stations.

Yet with all that, the agency still has plenty of time for politicking.

Since last fall, when Gov. Rick Scott's former general counsel Pete Antonacci was installed as head of the district, the water management district has gone after its critics with a vengeance.